Dialogue

 1  Prot|     but a child;) and all men praise him, Socrates; he is reputed
 2  Prot|    food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their
 3  Prot|       who is in want of them, praise them all alike; though I
 4  Prot| likely to win esteem, and not praise only, among us who are your
 5  Prot|       the hearers’ souls, but praise is often an insincere expression
 6  Prot|  awful’ (deinon) as a term of praise. If I say that Protagoras
 7  Prot|   great deal might be said in praise of the details of the poem,
 8  Prot|   does no evil, voluntarily I praise and love;—not even the gods
 9  Prot|    compel himself to love and praise another, and to be the friend
10  Prot|     and constrains himself to praise them; and if they have wronged
11  Prot|   compels himself to love and praise his own flesh and blood.
12  Prot|      himself had often had to praise and magnify a tyrant or
13  Prot|    you word); in this sense I praise no man. But he who is moderately
14  Prot|     some whom I involuntarily praise and love. And you, Pittacus,